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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure if this is standard but at our pool the A meet swimmers can go to A meets and B meets. The B meet swimmers can only go to B meets. Shouldn’t the B meets be exclusively for kids who don’t place at A meets? There is a rule at our pool that if you placed in the weeks previous A meet you can’t swim that stroke only for that week but this seems silly, allowing these kids to dominate the developmental meets. Is this a standard rule? [/quote]

Yes, that's typical. What's your definition of dominate? Races aren't scored. Everyone gets a participation ribbon. Some teams will seed the B-meet making it more competitive. Most of our A-meet swimmers who choose to swim B meets in the stroke they didn't score in are also looking to improve, including moving up the ladder to make divisional relays, etc. I do observe that for the 15 and over club swimmers, they sometimes they don't participate in the meet because they're busy, have to wake up the next morning for practice, or know swimming a 50 after last week isn't going to budge the needle. All of that said, there's a lot of reasons why your A meet reasons will do B meets.[/quote]

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